Call for Special Interest Group Meetings

CALL FOR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP MEETINGS

Submission Deadline: December 13, 2024

The Program Planning Committee of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) is offering the opportunity to hold Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings at the 33^RD Annual Meeting. We invite members to convene and chair a SIG. The purpose of the SIGs is to facilitate networking opportunities of conference attendees who would like to discuss in greater depth a specific prevention research, policy, or practice topic. The SIG convener(s) is expected to be in attendance, register for the conference, and facilitate the meeting, which will be open to all interested SPR conference attendees. The SIG can be formal with a planned agenda or informal depending upon the convener(s) and the participants.

To submit your SIG request, go to https://spr.confex.com/spr/spr2025/sig/cfp.cgi. You will be asked to provide

Convener(s) name and full contact information.
Title of SIG
150 – 250 word description (please note the SIGs are not intended for research presentations)

Conveners may request a repeat of a prior SIG (see list below) or request a new SIG. SPR will coordinate the meeting space and time.

The SIGs will be scheduled for Wednesday, May 28 or Thursday, May 29, 2025, from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, which is during the lunch break (11:45 am – 1:15 pm). Participants would purchase a lunch in the hotel or from one of the lunch spots nearby the hotel and bring it with them to the meeting. Meeting space is limited. If the number of requests exceeds space limitations, the SPR Program Planning Committee will prioritize decisions based on representing a diversity of SIGs to best capture the interests of the membership. Confirmed SIGs will be listed in the conference program, which will indicate the date, time, convener(s), and meeting room assignment.

EXPANDED SERVICES:

Please also note that starting in March 2024, expanded services will be provided to SIG conveners who have held SIG meetings between June 2021 and May 31, 2024. Optional opportunities include holding a virtual SIG meeting hosted by SPR and posting SIG news on the SPR SIG webpage. For more details please visit https://preventionresearch.org/spr-special-interest-groups-and-meetings/.

SIGs from 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 include a wide range of topics:

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50^th Anniversary of FAS/FASD Recognition: How are We Doing in Prevention?, 2024
A Roadmap for Prevention Systems Research, 2022
Adapting and/or Re-Evaluating Evidence-Informed Complex Population Health Interventions for Implementation in New Contexts: Guidance Development **
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Addressing Structural and interpersonal racism to reduce health disparities, SPR Diversity Network Committee, 2019
Advancing HIV Prevention Research, 2024
Advancing Lifespan Prevention Science, 2021**, 2022, 2023, 2024
Advancing Strong Standards for Preventive Interventions, 2019, 2022
Advancing the Vision and Mission of the National Institute of Mental Health through Prevention Science, 2022, 2023
American Indian and Alaska Native Prevention Research, 2019, 2020*/Prevention Research Among American Indians and Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiian Communities, 2022, 2023, American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian Prevention Research, 2024
Building Prevention Workforce Capacity through Prevention Technology Transfer Centers, 2019
Climate Change and Mental Health, 2024
Community-Engaged Etiology and Prevention Research Best Practices, 2023
Community-Engaged Research in Prevention Science: What Does It Look like and Where are we Going?, 2024
Developing Skill-Based Approaches to Decrease Micro-Aggressions and Anti-Racist Behaviors, 2021**
Digital Health Technologies: From Primordial to Tertiary Prevention, 2023
Effective Communication of Prevention Research, 2021**
Ethics, Social Justices and Cultural Humility to Create Equity in Prevention Research and for Prevention Program Planning and Implementation, 2023
Funding Information Session: What’s New (representatives from DHHS, NIH, CDC, William T. Grant Foundation), 2019
Health and Housing, 2021**
Healthy Parenting in Primary Care, 2019
Implementing Clinical Prevention into Primary Care, 2023
Improving Health Equity and Access to Rural Communities through Telehealth: Optimizing Telehealth-Guided Provider-to-Provider Communication, 2023
Innovative Approaches in Early Childhood Parent Support and Home Visiting Research, 2024
International Consortium of Universities for Drug Demand Reduction Discussion between Prevention Scientists and Educators*
Leveraging Administrative Data to Support Prevention Science Research, Policy, and Practice, 2024
Neurodiverse Perspectives in Prevention Science, 2024
NIMH Suicide Prevention-Current Priorities, 2024
Optimization of Multicomponent Interventions, 2020**
Overdoes Prevention Considering Polysubstance Use, 2020*
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Parenting in the Context of Addiction and Recovery, 2020**, 2024
Pediatric Unintentional Injury: Preventing the Leading Cause of Mortality Among Children
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Prenatal Programming of Childhood Health Complications: Opportunities for Prevention, 2021**, 2022, 2023, 2024
Prevention and Multimorbidity, 2020**
Prevention in High Schools Dialogue: Leadership, Restorative Justice, PBIS, Student Assistance Programs and Others, 2019
Prevention of Substance Use during Perinatal Period, 2020**, 2021**, 2024
Prevention Research and Positive Youth Development in Low and Middle-Income Countries, 2019
Prevention Science and LGBTQ Population Health, 2019
Prevention Science Graduate Training Programs, 2023
Prevention Science to Reduce Alcohol-Related Harms. A Dialogue with NIAAA, 2024
Qualitative Research in Prevention Science, sponsored by SPR DNC, 2024
Queer in Prevention Research (QIPR), 2023, 2024
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Research Needs to Address Disparities in Reproductive Health, 2020**, 2021**
Research-Practice-Policy Partnerships in Prevention: How Do They Work and How Do We Study Them?, 2022
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Research Synthesis Methods for Prevention Science, 2019, 2020**, 2021**, 2022, 2023, 2024
Research Transparency, Openness, and Reproducibility, 2019, 2021**, 2022, 2023, 2024
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School-Based Aggression and Bullying Prevention Programming, 2020
Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment or Prevention (SBIRT/P)
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Shifting the Conversation from Obesity Prevention to Weight Inclusive Health Promotion, 2022
Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Considerations in Implementation Science, 2022
Social Determinants of Health, Emerging Infectious Diseases, and Public Health Crises: Lessons Learned and Implications for Intervention, 2023.
SPR Diversity Network Committee Health Equity, 2022
SPR Diversity Network Committee, Research and Policy Considerations for Transgender and Other Gender Minority Populations*
SPR Diversity Network Committee, The Value of Partnerships in Prevention Science, 2021**
SPR Mid-Career Task Force, 2024
SPR Strategic Plan Updates, 2022
SPR Training Committee Mid-Career, 2023
Suicide Risk Among Latinx Youth: Collaborating to Build Multilevel Prevention Strategies, 2020**
Taking Prevention to the Next Stage: Linking Research to Practice, 2020*
The Changing Role of the Licensed Professional in Post-Disaster Behavioral Health Care, 2023
Translating Implementation Science for Policymakers at the Federal, State and Local Levels: What Does It Take to Compel Action?, 2023
Translating School-Based Aggression and Bullying Prevention Programming into Broader Clinical Practice, 2020*
Transparency, Replication, and Open Science: Plans for a Special Issue and Consensus Statement in Prevention Science, 2020**
Unleashing the Power of Prevention, 019, 2020*, 2021**
Urban Violence across the Lifespan, 2020*
Using Neural Measures in Prevention Research and Policy, 2021**
Violence Against Latinas: Using Data to inform Violence Prevention Interventions, 2022

*Accepted though not convened.

**Accepted and convened virtually.

For questions, please contact Jennifer Lewis at jenniferlewis@preventionresearch.org or 703-934-4850, ext. 213.

Deadline for Submission: December 13, 2024

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